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How Microsoft Dismantled the Infamous Necurs Botnet
wired.com

Photos: The Quiet Emptiness of a World Under Coronavirus
theatlantic.com

Consuming the Little Dodo
theatlantic.com

The man who remembers everything
wellcomecollection.org

Snow Science Against the Avalanche
newyorker.com

The Acrobatic Immigrant Who Invented Pilates in a Prisoner of War Camp
narratively.com

Can computers ever replace the classroom?
theguardian.com

The Accusations Were Lies. But Could We Prove It?
nytimes.com

Sorry for the lack of links today—this earthquake shook our HQ and threw the whole day into disarray
sltrib.com

There’s A Shortage Of Ventilators For Coronavirus Patients, So This International Group Invented An Open Source Alternative That’s Being Tested Next Week
forbes.com

When Coffee Cargo Was Quarantined
daily.jstor.org

Mass Panic Is Unlikely, Even During a Pandemic
wired.com

The life and death of one of America’s most mysterious trees
phys.org • (see also)

Axions Would Solve Another Major Problem in Physics
quantamagazine.org

Rocky asteroid Ryugu got its rubble from a porous parent, study finds
space.com

Found: Two Bombs From 1935 Stuck in Hawai’i Volcano
smithsonianmag.com

The Origin of the Disease Detectives
saturdayeveningpost.com

What Six-Toed Cats Tell Us About Genetic Development
lithub.com

The unsolved mystery of France’s iconic Loire Valley
bbc.com

How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet
nature.com

In 1893, a Swedish Playwright Thought He’d Captured the Stars
atlasobscura.com

A new theory of magnetar formation
phys.org

Is Earth being bombarded by teeny ultra-high-velocity meteors moving at near lightspeed?
syfy.com

On this day in 1968 thousands of sheep in Utah died suddenly
damninteresting.com

Scientists Discover Ice Age Structure Made From Bones of 60 Mammoths
gizmodo.com

Real estate for the apocalypse: ‘my journey into a survival bunker’
theguardian.com

Samuel Morse and the Quest for the Daguerreotype Portrait
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

New Earth Surveillance Tech Is About to Change Everything, Including Us
vice.com

How Big Are Neutron Stars?
discovermagazine.com

The Internet is drowning in COVID-19-related malware and phishing scams
arstechnica.com

The actor who was really stabbed on stage
bbc.com

What Is the Geometry of the Universe?
quantamagazine.org

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries
lithub.com

A 40,000-mile journey was nothing for this 19th-century female explorer
nationalgeographic.com

Remember You Will Be Buried
laphamsquarterly.org

Town of Asbestos ready to change name and move beyond proud but toxic legacy
thestar.com

Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”
washingtonpost.com

India’s Chandrayaan 2 is Creating the Highest Resolution Map We Have of the Moon
universetoday.com

New Paper Suggests Life Could Be Common Across The Universe, Just Not Near Us
sciencealert.com

Newly Discovered Deep Sea Coral Garden Could Unlock the Ocean’s Secrets
earther.gizmodo.com

How the world’s fattest parrot came back from the brink
theguardian.com

Haunted by a Gene
nytimes.com

Satanic Panic: How a tiny town was swept up in a wave of accusations
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

How South Jersey Keeps Muskrat on the Menu
atlasobscura.com

How Soviet Science Magazines Fantasized About Life in Outer Space
atlasobscura.com

Ask Ethan: It’s Absurd To Think Dark Matter Might Be Made Of Hexaquarks, Right?
forbes.com

How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?
lithub.com

There’s a New Hypothesis For How Uranus Ended Up Tipped on Its Side
sciencealert.com

Mercury’s 400 C heat may help it make its own ice
phys.org

A rare find: An eclipsing binary brown dwarf in a triple brown dwarf system
syfy.com

300 years ago today Charles Bonnet was born, later to become the namesake for a strange phenomenon
damninteresting.com

These microbial communities have learned to live at Earth’s most extreme reaches
nature.com

Salty space rock helps to solve longstanding comet mystery
space.com

A tiny ‘country’ between France and Switzerland
bbc.com

Why the MOSAiC Expedition’s Research Is So Vital to Climate Change Research
smithsonianmag.com

Censoring Anne Frank: how her famous diary has been edited through history
historyextra.com

Germany’s Most Important Informant Tells His Story
spiegel.de

Why plague doctors wore those strange beaked masks
nationalgeographic.com

Why is the Palace of Westminster falling apart?
bbc.com